this is an enormous story possibly the biggest story of this presidency because 1st of all it's arguably the 1st time that a whistle blower action has been filed against the president if indeed that's what this action is as we now are coming to understand. and there are extensive protections that are required by law for whistleblowers to enable them to bring important information of corruption to light so 2nd of all there would be as part of the story obstruction of justice potentially on the part of the white house actors in the white house or even the president because it appears as though there is potentially a coordinated effort going on to ensure that congress adam shifts committee in particular does not receive the copy of this complaint. and

that's a very very serious matter for the president if indeed it's borne out that he had anything to do with directing the office of national intelligence not to produce these documents and directing the attorney general's office to it so it vies the office of national intelligence because there's a me me thing britain's prime minister bars johnson in london checked to me and been hunted down fannie and johnson were discussed developments in the gulf region . or. so who had. a personal relationship with my peers ago i do business i do just the relationship because there is a very strong relationship. with us we wrote. a book you know for sure. let's go to nadine barber joins us live from london so will they discuss.

also me just before boris johnson's meeting here at 10 downing street with the emir of qatar the prime minister said that relations between the 2 countries were going from strength to strength we haven't got any detail after the meeting about what points they went through but the ukase ambassador to qatar made a statement before the visit in which he outlined the areas in which they do cooperate to a large extent he talked about trade which is worth about $6500000000.00 pounds per year energy saying that qatar provides the u.k. with up to 30 percent of its gas imports in the hopes to be able to work with qatar in expanding its liquefied natural gas sector and also defense mentioning that qatar has recently ordered 24 typhoon fighter jets also talking about this commitment signed by his by boris johnson's pre-disaster to resume a as prime minister to work with qatar over the next well until 2030

in areas such as. education and health in terms of boosting the facilities in the state of qatar so lots to talk about what we haven't got in the detail at the moment as to what they discussed beyond mutual relations in terms of regional interests me thanks nadine. twitter says is removed more than 4 and a half 1000 political spam accounts being used to target carter in a coordinated campaign they were operating out of the united arab emirates in egypt and used fake personas to push content critical of carter while promoting saudi arabia's government to is also suspending the account of former saudi royal court advisor soudan danny he's been implicated in the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. extensive damage is revealed has been revealed rather at one of 2 saudi arabian oil facilities attacked last week new video shows parts

of the horrors processing site charge from saturday's strike the 2 attacks on state and saudi aramco facilities knocked out half of the kingdom's oil output yemen's who the rebels say they were behind the drone strikes but the u.s. and saudi blamed iran iran's foreign minister is flying to new york after being granted a visa for the annual gathering of world leaders at the united nations next week divides the diplomatic mission comes just a day after he warned of all out war if the u.s. takes military action against iran that follows the bombings of 2 major saudi arabian oil facilities reports from tehran. drone and missile attacks on saudi oil facilities last week iranian leaders say the only reason the u.s. and saudi arabia are blaming them is because the alternative is too embarrassing that yemen's hoopy fighters were capable of carrying out such

a destructive military operation. but the saudis say the drones and missiles direction of travel recover debris the capacity of the technology used in these attacks all draw a straight line back to tehran foreign ministers of odds rufus said of the iran co-incident is used as an excuse to attack his country iran won't think twice about defending itself he also warned u.s. president donald trump not to listen to his saudi allies who would march to war with iran for their own sake they should pray that they won't get what they seek they're still paying for a much smaller human war that they were too arrogant in 4 years ago for those hoping for cooler heads to prevail the rhetoric coming from tehran of widespread and destructive retaliation is worrying and an indication of how far the u.s. and iran have come from the negotiating table. but the reality is iran's position is nothing new the promise of a kind of mutually assured destruction of american assets and allies in the region

has been standing policy for years and iranian experts say is keeping iran's enemies at bay what is new is how frequent and assertive the message from iranian leaders has become a signal perhaps that there is real concern into iran that some kind of u.s. aggression may now be closer than ever on a visit to saudi arabia the u.s. secretary of state described the oil facility attacks as an act of war and promised more economic sanctions on iran and there will be more sanctions. we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their terror said to provoke to prevent them from conducting their terror campaigns and you can see from the events of last week there's still more work to do we're going to continue to drive towards that end. you cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened. saudi arabia those opposed to the saudi led war in yemen now in its 4th year see the incident very differently

the who has dismissed the saudi version of events describing the attack as an example of how their own newly developed weapons can now reach targets far beyond yemen's borders and they warned if the saudi led coalition won't stop dropping bombs on yemen then coalition countries should be prepared for more of the same leaders here in iran have been quick to remind the world that it was yemen's hooty fighters that claimed responsibility for the attacks last week on saudi oil infrastructure the hoodies no doubt consider these attacks not as an act of war by iran as the americans would see it but as retaliation for an ongoing saudi war that was sparked by a saudi led invasion and that's the line being pushed by iran's leaders as well zain. to news is former president's day in ben ali has died the 83 year old had been in intensive care for the past 3 months ben ali was in

saudi arabia where he had been living in exile since being overthrown in the 2011 revolution claims his role gave to stability but he was criticized for widespread corruption and suppressing political freedom. russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution demanding a truce in northwest syria it called for an end to hostilities in the last rebel held province but a new deal between turkey and russia has been reached on the demilitarized zone there so hold the reports from beirut. the revolution hasn't died in syria's north west these people were forced from their homes in the recent russian backed syrian government offensive that took control of the northern countryside of hama province and many towns and it limps else including. at least half a 1000000 syrians have been displaced since the end of april. we the people of honshu we are not asking assad to allow us to return to our town

we will never accept his role our revolution will continue until the downfall of this criminal regime it's been relatively calm since the august 31 ceasefire but many people living in fear it's only a matter of time before president bashar al assad's forces resume their military operation that has already killed more than 1000 civilians the syrian opposition believes there is a deal to prevent the humanitarian crisis from worsening. there was an agreement between turkey and russia to create a demilitarized zone free of weapons and fighters on the international terrorism list the zone will be patrolled by russia and turkey the syrian interim government will take over governance from high atop. which will have to be disbanded. the situation and it was discussed this week between syria's power brokers who support opposing sides but work together under the so-called asked in a process turkey made clear its priority is to prevent a humanitarian crisis and

a large influx of refugees into the country russia and iran focused on the fight against those they call terrorists but it seems they found middle ground there me limited. operations in terms of time and location by getting. the other side over there is also an ongoing process in egypt as you know it's ever . been off because there's pressure. but the people there many syrians have taken to the streets demanding high at the lead a sham leaves it lip they accuse the armed group of abusing power and failing to defend territory h.t.s. is considered a terrorist organization by the international community because of its links with al qaida. was the reason why last year's deal between turkey and russia on the creation of

a demilitarized zone and it was never implemented it refused to cooperate forcing it to withdraw would have required mainstream opposition factions in gauging in a internal war that would have weakened their position vis a vis pro-government forces it's not clear if h.t.s. will cooperate this time or whether there is a time table to this apparent deal between turkey and russia but it seems a large scale offensive has been put on hold for now and russian president vladimir putin is openly discussing limiting anti terror operations and it lip. beirut pakistan's declining group here sent the prices of basic goods soaring it's now cheaper to buy a liter of petrol than a liter of milk the country's central bank is warning inflation will only increase the reports from islamabad. a country of over $200000000.00 people august on is confronting an economic crisis its population and expanding at

a rate of 3 percent annually by the inflation. figures after the government run for a bailout package from the international monetary fund because you're increasing the gap between the rich. because the pakistani rupee doing its rally you and i shared almost 30 percent against the us dollar buckstone is going through a partially artificial inflationary situation and because of massive beef devaluation of the repeat and all of the sudden rise in the interest rate. the government is trying to slow things down because the government said that the fiscal and trade deficits were out of control however it has had a backlash which is in the form of higher prices the ordinary people are suffering even the so-called rich people are suffering because as i said the sudden rise in interest rates has caused this problem the sudden devaluation of the rupee has

caused this problem and go ahead and then. i have also added to the problem. a problem with corruption and money laundering and it now is struggling to try to economy people are already complaining because the price of eccentric commodities have gone up. and over yeah they've got about we hopeless now the prices have gone to an extreme that even by running the shop i can't cope with my utilities and my family expenses if i was not able to pay the fees of my son and took him off from school to work with me at the shop to save the salary of the worker i don't know what to do next. there is no work for me and i am sitting on the roadside since this morning and this is my daily routine on but i can't get any job to earn money so i can feed my kids i am very worried how to sustain as i am not able to pay the rent for the house as the owner is threatening me i don't know

what to do i am at the mercy of god. had received help from the united arab emirates and saudi arabia still had to go to the i.m.f. under conditions. that are already being felt on the ground by the. for the government to learn to trade because the local population may feed their data in the neighborhood or deliver on their promise. dan is going through a major crisis and people are saying they did it. frighted are now even higher than died of a few. bierria has observed a day of mourning for 27 people killed in a fire it's an islamic school near the capital most of the victims were students they were sleeping when the blaze broke out at night at a boarding school near monrovia it's believed the fire was caused by an electrical fault. the number of u.s. soldiers in somalia has increased and the president donald trump one of their jobs

involves training a local group to become an elite force to take on and find says our correspondent got a firsthand look at the so-called lightning force in training. these are the new frontlines in the fight against al shabaab in somalia. and these are the men taking that fight to the armed groups strongholds the united states has at least $500.00 switches in this country but it's trained and paid for somali troops to form the deneb unit or lightning falls. apart from our operations against al shabaab fighters to retake tira trees and of a control we also target their assessments bomb builders and those who kidnapped foreigners in our country we also try to raise the spies in those who provide them with arms and other supplies but the. somali government officials say this elite force is comprised of soldiers from almost all of somalia's colognes deneb units

health killed some of those about sin the leaders and in areas that were taken from the al qaeda linked group they're winning the support of local people how they would out front in the money and things are much better than before in terms of security we're not living in fear anymore the soldiers eclipse and we're forever thankful to the government the den a brigade was launched as a 150 pulse and unit roughly 5 years ago but has since grown to become one of somalia's most used military forces while u.s. forces in somalia cut out al strikes and drone attacks against al shabaab fighters it's these forces who've been carrying out the bulk of the ground assault against the group official say the plan is to develop done up into a full so free fall the soldiers capable of removing al shabaab fighters from towns and villages across the country. the regular somali national on. is involved in the fighting. we have achieved many victories we spent

a lot of time preparing for the current offensive against al shabaab but it was worth the wait we have liberated many towns and villages in the past months. the somali national army needs more tickets to bowl states rungs these training camp in the small town of alan's central somalia is just one of a few across the country by next year to 2000 uptick and union peacekeepers expected to begin putting out of somalia and it will fall to these soldiers to take over the top keeping security in fighting al shabab. goodell is central somalia. one of them i will have all the way of that with kevin but still ahead here in al-jazeera. the buck stops with me and i take responsibility why the canadian prime minister is apologizing again for phase of bras which bring his reelection campaign. and the world's top competitors back

home land function california we'll have those details coming up next from spall. this are going to take you up here towards cambodia where we have seen 10 days of very heavy rain across much of this area i want to show you what 10 days of rain actually looks like we have seen widespread flooding in the flooding has turned deadly 11 people are now confirmed dead because of the flooding we have about 30000 hectares of land paddy fields as well as other crops destroyed and 10000 homes destroyed or damaged as well we do expect to see more rain in the coming days across much of this area unfortunately as you can see on a forecast map where that green area is the rain is going to continue. fortune the floodwaters are not going to go down across much of this area we're also dealing

with a travel storm here in the western pacific this is trouble storm topper you can see the clouds right there moving towards the north now we do think that this storm over the next few days is going to be getting stronger right now we're talking about winds gusting up to about 120 kilometers per hour not moving too fast there you can see only moving at about 6 kilometers now over the next few days that storm is going to continue to move to the north it will get stronger by the time we get towards sunday though we should be looking at a typhoon making its way out of the really the islands and into the locality of probably south korea in terms of rain though it's going to be very heavy across much of the area we could be seeing well over $250.00 millimeters not only through the islands but also up towards south korea. good weather sponsored by catherine. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business smuggling one they will take because they're in the sand is our

parent you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound was at this time on al jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

come back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now a global climate strike is underway with protesters from more than a 150 countries joining a youth led movement calling for an end to fossil fuels and begins a weeklong worldwide campaign demanding greater action on climate change ahead of the u.n. summit in new york. the u.s. justice department is being accused of playing a major role in reportedly withholding a whistleblower's complaint against the president according to u.s. media that. complaint related to a phone call between donald trump and a foreign leader extensive damage is being revealed that one of 2 saudi arabian oil facilities attacked last week new video shows parts of the whole race processing site charge from saturday's strike the twin attacks not tell half of the kingdom's

oil output. speak now to really. who is a research fellow studies cross border environmental governance at the national university of singapore good to have you with us so this is lines about the fires burning in indonesia now is that maybe even reaching further afield of parts of the philippines being impacted how far can this go. with it i mean well when we talk about ice wires it can go for weeks and especially if it happens on its land use up layer. mance once it's once is that all getting methanol then when it's there in this land it can be easily extinct least. it's going to matter a layer and it can go for weeks and even for months in the absence of been quite

simple indonesian experience like almost 3 months what is fire from july to october and this is only september and we still have months of rice and i have a. wavelength think of these fires as the result of actions taken by individual farmers it's a bit more complicated than that right there is that there are multiple actors multiple levels and layers of interest and money involved here can you elaborate on that. yes that is sped it through. what i guess and but let me in indonesia share at a landscape there are many actors in false so many conflicting interests for example lapdance gale plantations oil pumping stations and. paper. these are a type of

a pull back there's they hammer. demand and insert ins on this. system 1000000 opic there is what i think it'll end in indonesia for 2. more no. it's so not only small scale farmers that are depending on land for export of their livelihoods lot of billions of monies from this investor and currently but also many off the left on. concessions and what i mean. in indonesia. like for example in one line of products there can be more people claims all. these other air not only from indigenous people who has a new man because they have us believe there but also proud.

to have been given to me by the government to call that a plan so that if these. come to the way shin the men to us are what i call them in an issue that is making these aspire not e.c. food. or i will leave it there for now thanks so much. wildfires are still burning in brazil's amazon forests prompting a warning from some scientists that as collating deforestation could eventually turn the rainforest into drive. despite a ban on fires from land clearing the amazon is burning at a rate not seen in almost a decade say in human reports. in the state of matter grosser. 60 year old agronomist. walks to the charred remains of his land for the 1st time

since fire destroyed it all. but these were my seedling beads or years of work here you would grip to do it and it smelled differently it had life now it's ash. but gabrielle applied a sustainable system without artificial fertilisers only native species to make the land more productive. but all his work to grow his 1st pineapples sugarcane fruit trees and corn went up in smoke in just a few minutes he says that filmed this video on september 7th just before he had to run to save himself. he describes what's left a surprise to total dysart of the cation. the characteristic of this next of forest is its ability to survive decades of fires but with every new fire it becomes more degraded and smaller until it withers away and the only thing left is

it does it. last month the number of wildfires in the amazon tripled compared to the previous year and as elsewhere here in the most impacted state they continue spreading until a week ago all this looked like a kind of in chanted forest what scientists call an environmental corridor with more than 100 native species and not just trees but also animals like wild deer armadillos boars poulos and many many more are the fires have destroyed all this in some cases were accidental in others intentional but in all cases they were manmade . the state environmental department argues that the number of fires is relative. compared to 20 i tane which was a rainy year the amount of deforestation will double this year yet if you compare it to other years it's quite everett's nothing extraordinary. but that's not really

the veil says she's lived in the area for 20 years and says her family never experienced anything close to and wildfires came right up to their doorstep they survived by a miracle she says. i'm very frightened still too afraid to even go to work because i don't want to leave the house and my family alone it's generous. she's right to be worried the temperatures have been hovering at nearly $43.00 degrees for weeks the start of the rainy season is at least a month away and even that won't guarantee that this litle tropical forest will be out of danger you see in human i'll just see that sharp lather digvijay singh brazil. in the desert of the u.s. state of nevada police are preparing for their call an act of mass civil disobedience thousands of alien enthusiastic banded together through social media

applying to trespass on to a secretive u.s. military base heidi joe castro reports from rachel nevada. it all started as a joke university student matty roberts had been bored at work so to entertain himself he turned on his computer in created a meme about a pretend event he imagined on the spot the title of the event is star mary $51.00 that can't stop all of us area $51.00 is a top secret u.s. military base in the nevada desert it's where the cia developed spy planes at the height of the cold war and where classified military testing continues today but some believe this is also where the u.s. government studies aliens you can imagine that if indeed there is an alien race with the technology to be able to arrive here on our planet their knowledge would be very useful to us so it's very possible the rumors have always been that we

might be in collaboration with some off world intelligence conspiracies are enjoying a resurgence in american pop culture then enter roberts me about to be something funny for the $62.00 followers that i had of my page and apparently i was completely correct and it was funny to the entire world so funny that more than 2000000 people are is on line for the september 20th a vent of course not all those millions of people will show up but hotel rooms and campsites have sold out in this very remote area and nearby desert towns used to supporting populations of no more than 100 are bracing for a potential onslaught of as many as 10000 alien hunters who will bring with them their very human needs there's nowhere to find food water or gas for tens of kilometers 2 counties have issued emergency declarations ahead of the event and the u.s.

military says it will of rest anyone who trespasses on to area $51.00 as the signs warn lethal force is authorized again. those who disobeyed so what does roberts think of storming the base now but i think it's terrible. yes the creator of storm area 51 is telling people not to storm area 51 but it may be too late because of one some things launched into the great unknown of cyberspace it may return with alien life. castro al-jazeera rachel nevada calenders prime minister has apologized again after another photograph and video emerged of him wearing blackface makeup justin trudeau says he'll continue with his reelection campaign but his opponents say he's not fit to govern down your luck has more from toronto these are the images that have justin trudeau saying he's sorry there from an event in 2001 when as a high school teacher he was part of a gala within

a rabia knights the other images including a grainy video have also emerged of trudeau in similar makeup reportedly in high school in the 1990 s. here's his 2nd apology in less than 24 hours. i want to begin by saying a few words directly to racialize canadians who face discrimination every single day in their lives even in a country like canada. what i did. hurt them hurt people who shouldn't have to face intolerance and discrimination because of their identity what previously appeared to be a dull election campaign has been energized and thrown into uncertainty one of trudeau's opponents canada's only nonwhite federal political leader spoke of his own experiences with discrimination when i was growing up i thought rhesus i dealt with them myself and i fought back but i got a message from a friend who reminded me that there's

a lot of people out there they couldn't do that they couldn't fight back they didn't have the ability to do that and i think that that's going to hurt to see this is going to hurt them also during this campaign mr trudeau and the liberal party of often linked andrew scheer the conservative opposition leader to right wing media and white supremacist websites mr scherer was quick to condemn the prime minister wearing brown face is an act of open mockery and racism it was just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2019 but what comedian saw this evening is someone with a complete lack of judgment and integrity trudeau has been the face of his government in front of the cameras much of the time welcoming syrian refugees apologizing for the ill treatment of indigenous people in canada he was deadlocked in the opinion polls with his conservative opponent before the images appeared how this affects his standing with the voters will certainly determine his political future the more.